BLOCKROCKET helps support and accelerate blockchain startups in launching and growing their business model by providing a platform based on top level co-working facilities in Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin as well as a powerful network of investors, corporates and service providers in the blockchain space.

The World Economic Forum curates a list of more than 60 major reports, white papers, or speeches from central bank researchers, international organizations, or research economists on the subject of blockchain and DLT for central bank processes and macroeconomics. The list includes the references in this report and serves as a resource for identifying central bank research on DLT.

As part of a continuing effort to assist those seeking to comply with the U.S. federal securities laws, FinHub is publishing a framework for analyzing whether a digital asset is offered and sold as an investment contract, and, therefore, is a security. The framework is not intended to be an exhaustive overview of the law, but rather, an analytical tool to help market participants assess whether the federal securities laws apply to the offer, sale, or resale of a particular digital asset. Also, the Division of Corporation Finance is issuing a response to a no-action request, indicating that the Division will not recommend enforcement action to the Commission if the digital asset described in the request is offered or sold without registration under the U.S. federal securities laws.

ESMA has been working with National Competent Authorities (NCAs) on analysing the different business models of crypto-assets, the risks and potential benefits that they may introduce, and how they fit within the existing regulatory framework. Based on this work, including a survey of National Competent Authorities (NCAs) during 2018, ESMA has identified a number of concerns in the current financial regulatory framework regarding crypto-assets.

The EBA has been undertaking work in relation to VCs for some time.1 However, further to therequest from European Commission Vice President Dombrovskis for the European SupervisoryAuthorities (ESAs) to carry out additional work to assess the applicability and suitability of currentEU law to crypto-assets, and as outlined in the EBA’s March 2018 FinTech Roadmap, the EBA has carried out an additional analysis, the findings of which are set out in this report.

The SEC’s Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (FinHub). As financial technologies, methods of capital formation, market structures, and investor interfaces continue to evolve, FinHub will play an important role in facilitating the SEC’s active engagement with innovators, developers, and entrepreneurs.

On October 31 of 2008, a paper written by a person or group named ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ released a white paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” The document described a revolutionary technology that created the world’s first genuine peer-to-peer and decentralized monetary system. The internet-based money enabled online payments without a third party and also wasn’t issued by a government or corporate entity.